# ML Research Engineer at Specter

- Company: Specter
- What the company does: Search 55M companies, 550M people and every funding or M&A event in real time—surface hidden startups, size markets and act first. Backed by Entrepreneur First.
- Company website: https://tryspecter.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2025-10-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/5b739abf-ff54-4cf3-9f25-6d2948f963f7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/specter-ml-research-engineer/

## About the role

Implementing and deploying a variety of deep-learning based vision, vision-language, and large language models to our world-class distributed perception system Building and scaling a production-grade data-collection, labelling, and model re-training platform

## What they're looking for

- Experience fine-tuning, implementing, and deploying vision-language models and large language models in frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorRT-LLM, and ONNX
- Experience optimizing model runtimes utilizing techniques such as quantization, pruning, low-rank adaptation, etc. where appropriate
- Experience building production-grade RAG pipelines, and scaling vector databases in production
- Strong experience in C++/Rust development in embedded systems and knowledge of Linux fundamentals
- Strong knowledge of CUDA fundamentals
- Experience with image/video processing, filtering, and enhancement. Knowledge of various video codecs desirable

Tags: Engineering